faithful and devoted to spiritual culture. It is the duty of an administrator king to protect the spiritual culture and wise learned scholars, and all these kings fulfilled their duty perfectly. The members of the Yadu Dynasty were so numerous that it would be too difficult to describe them all would live several thousand years. The only education of the children of the Yadu dynasty required 38,800,000 preceptors or spiritual teachers. If it took so many teachers to take care of their children, one can hardly imagine the fabulous number of members of this dynasty. As for their military power, it is said that King Ugrasena alone had ten quatrillions (10 x 1,000,000,000,000) of soldiers who served him as personal bodyguards.

Krishna chooses to appear for his pure devotees, to play the role of child with Mother Yasoda and Nanda Maharaja, and to delight the inhabitants of Dvaraka.

Before Sri Krishna appeared in this universe, many battles already opposed demonic beings to celestial beings. Many demonic beings died in battle, and all had the opportunity to be reborn on Earth in high royal families. The prestigious position they occupied thus swelled with pride these demonic kings whose only concern was to harass their subjects and it is in order to annihilate them all that Sri Krishna appeared on our planet, just at the end of the age bronze, the third age of a cycle of four. As God teaches, “the Lord appears to protect his devotees and annihilate the disbelievers.”

Certain celestial beings were also invited to appear on this Earth to assist Sri Krishna in his absolute entertainment. When Krishna descends into this world, then accompany him to his eternal servants, but heavenly beings were also commanded to appear to assist the Lord, and so all were born in the Yadu dynasty. This dynasty had 101 clans scattered throughout the country. Each of the members of these different clans venerated Sri Krishna in a form that conformed to his divine position, and each of them had dedicated his heart and soul to him. Thus all the members of the Yadu dynasty lived in opulence, happiness and prosperity, and suffered no anxiety. Because they brought to Sri Krishna unreserved faith and devotion, they were never defeated by other kings. Their love for God was so intense that during their usual occupations, when they sat, slept, traveled, talked, entertained, washed and bathed, they were absorbed only in the thought of Krishna and paid no attention to the needs of the body. This is the mark of a pure devotee of Krishna; just as a man perfectly absorbed in a particular thought sometimes forgets the other functions of his body, the members of the Yadu dynasty acted mechanically to provide for their bodies: their attention remained forever fixed on Krishna. If their physical activities were accomplished reflexively, their thought was continually lost in Krishna consciousness.

The science of God focuses on five particular excellencies of Sri Krishna. In the first place, before the Lord appeared in the Yadu family, the Ganges were held for the purest in the world; by the mere touch of its waters even the impure bodies became sanctified, and this incomparable power of the Ganges is due to the fact that it